Re: Botanic Gardens and community gardening programs
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York) has a very active and strong program with links to community gardens as well as other neighborhood programs through Brooklyn GreenBridge which is part of the garden's Education Department. It started with a major initiative in 1993 to promote urban composting in NYC's botanic gardens with the NYC Dept. of Sanitation and then expanded to other aspects including work with community gardens, block associations, therapeutic horticulture, etc. It has a newsletter which goes to over 12,000 city residents. The botanic garden sponsors the program, raises funds and includes the program in many of its activities. Nealy 100 Master Composters have been trained and there is a significant set of workshops in the botanic garden as well as in the community. There are other such programs at various botanic gardens around the US as well as other countries, e.g. South Africa out of the Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden. For more information, check out www.bbg.org then go to the Education Department, Brooklyn GreenBirdge. Ellen Kirby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20071115/961c0e03/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
